Diamond Warriors in Colonial Namibia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diamond Warriors in Colonial Namibia write by Shipululo Amupanda. This book was released on 2022-07-22. Diamond Warriors in Colonial Namibia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Diamond Warriors in Colonial Namibia enters into unchartered scholarly territory of illegal diamond smuggling at the largest diamond mining company in colonial Namibia-De Beers' Consolidated Diamond Mines of South West Africa (CDM). It details the underground activities of the natives (migrant workers) employed by the CDM and how these illicit activities accounted for rapid development in Owamboland. Beyond this account, the book takes on the deterministic 'natural resource curse' theory that equates natural resource endowments to a curse resulting in underdevelopment and sometimes conflict. It is argued and proven herein, from a decolonial standpoint, that such an approach is an oversimplification of the political economy of natural resources in Africa in general and Namibia in particular. The text also provides a contextual account of the contract labour system and details the symbiotic relationship between CDM and the colonial state before highlighting the remaining unanswered questions and areas of further research.
Diamond Warriors in Colonial Namibia
Diamond Warriors in Colonial Namibia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diamond Warriors in Colonial Namibia write by Job Shipululo Amupanda. This book was released on 2022-07-06. Diamond Warriors in Colonial Namibia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Diamond Warriors in Colonial Namibia enters into unchartered scholarly territory of illegal diamond smuggling at the largest diamond mining company in colonial Namibia—De Beers’ Consolidated Diamond Mines of South West Africa (CDM). It details the underground activities of the natives (migrant workers) employed by the CDM and how these illicit activities accounted for rapid development in Owamboland. Beyond this account, the book takes on the deterministic ‘natural resource curse’ theory that equates natural resource endowments to a curse resulting in underdevelopment and sometimes conflict. It is argued and proven herein, from a decolonial standpoint, that such an approach is an oversimplification of the political economy of natural resources in Africa in general and Namibia in particular. The text also provides a contextual account of the contract labour system and details the symbiotic relationship between CDM and the colonial state before highlighting the remaining unanswered questions and areas of further research
Forged in Genocide
Forged in Genocide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forged in Genocide write by William Blakemore Lyon. This book was released on 2024-07-22. Forged in Genocide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Forged in Genocide traces the early history of colonial capitalism in Namibia with a central focus on migrants who came to be key to the economy during and as a result of the German genocide of the Herero and Nama (1904-1908). It posits that Namibia, far from being a colonial backwater of the early 20th century, became highly integrated into the labor flows and economies of West and Southern Africa, and even for a time was one of the most sought-after regions for African migrants because of relatively high wages and numerous opportunities resulting from the war’s demographic devastation paired with an economic frenzy following the discovery of diamonds. In highlighting the life stories of migrants in Namibia from regions as diverse as the Kru coast of Liberia, the Eastern Cape of South Africa, and the Ovambo polities of Northern Namibia, this work integrates micro-history into larger African continental trends. Building off of written sources from migrants themselves and utilising the Namibian Worker Database constructed for this project, this book explores the lives of workers in early colonial Namibia in a way that has hereto not been attempted.
Treasures of the Diamond Coast
Treasures of the Diamond Coast - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Treasures of the Diamond Coast write by Gabi Schneider. This book was released on 2009. Treasures of the Diamond Coast available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Infrastructures of Migrant Labour in Colonial Ovamboland, 1915 to 1954
Infrastructures of Migrant Labour in Colonial Ovamboland, 1915 to 1954 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Infrastructures of Migrant Labour in Colonial Ovamboland, 1915 to 1954 write by Lovisa Nampala. This book was released on 2023-09-23. Infrastructures of Migrant Labour in Colonial Ovamboland, 1915 to 1954 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most research on the migrant labour system in Namibia under South African colonial rule emphasises its dehumanising aspects. In a complete contrast, this study highlights the social and ritual resources that contract workers and their families in colonial Ovamboland mobilised to provide forms of support and connection across great distances and absences. Based on extensive oral research, this study peels back the layers of intangible infrastructure that sustained migrant workers through all the stages of their contract, including observances around workplace deaths. This thesis vividly demonstrates the persistence of older practices that sustained the bonds of life, fellowship and family under stress, as well as adaptation to new colonial system, such as the postal system.
